Mr.Who2123: After the gasps of my last chappie of "she did like him" we go to Sybak! Wahoo! Wait, we're in Sybak! Doi!
Kratos: Shut up and do the Disclaimers…
Mr.Who2123: Oh, that reminds me, I have like no more ideas for funny Disclaimers, so they're not going to be as good. What can I say? I ran out of juice…
Kratos: Disclaimers…
Mr.Who2123: Fine, I choose Kvar
Kvar: Inferior Being
Kratos: I will kill you! (Lunges for Kvar, but Mr.Who2123 stops them)
Mr.Who2123: Not until after the Disclaimers and I have a couple questions for Kvar… (Evil glare on Kvar)
Kvar: (Gulp)
Mr.Who2123: Why do you look Asian? Why do you always say inferior being? Do the Disclaimers! (Before he opens his mouth…) Hurry up! I haven't got all day!
Kvar: Mr.Who2123 does not own Tales of Symphonia, but if she did, she'd introduce Diet Coke to the characters!
Mr.Who2123: Took you long enough!
Kratos: Now can I kill him?
Mr.Who2123: Sure!
(Kratos kills Kvar, and then Kratos is happy)
Mr.Who2123: Let it begin!
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"Anna, wake up!" Yuan said, shaking the sleeping woman. He had been at it for awhile, and Kratos smirked. "How do you wake her up?" Yuan asked in an annoyed tone.
"Watch," he replied, and threw off the sheets revealing her in a dismantled position, drool coming down her mouth.
"Gross," Yuan said, and turned away as Kratos bent down and yelled as loud as he could.
"Anna, there's a buffet!" he exclaimed, then stepped back as she got up abruptly and looked around.
"Where's the buffet?" she asked, getting out of the bed. Yuan smiled, and Kratos folded his arms.
"We said that just to wake you up," Kratos muttered and grabbed the bag. Anna frowned in response, and jumped out of her bed.
"Get out, I'm getting dressed," she said and the two boys left with no argument.
Kratos and Yuan were waiting by the door in silence. Yuan looked at Kratos, then to the room, and then back at Kratos.
"Do you like her?" he asked, folding his arms. Kratos cocked his head and raised an eyebrow.
"If you mean Anna, then no. Why did you ask, Yuan?" Kratos inquired his suspicions arousing.
"Anna does like you, and I wanted to know if you like her back," he said, grinning. "How could she fall in love with some-," he stopped as Kratos threw the bag at Yuan and left downstairs. He watched the seraphim leave the inn and then shrugged.
"I'm ready!" Anna exclaimed, opening the door. Yuan nodded and headed downstairs while Anna followed.
"So where is Kratos?" she asked when they reached the open air. Yuan shook his head and pointed to Kratos who was leaning against a wall.
"Hey, Kratos!" Anna said, approaching him.
"Hey, Anna," he replied and headed out of the town. Noishe had joined the three and growled at Yuan.
"Noishe, it's Yuan, remember?" Yuan said to the growl from the protozoan. Noishe stopped and returned to his normal and cute face.
"Noishe never liked blue haired people," Kratos explained to Anna.
"Why?" she asked, and looked back at Yuan who was eyeing Noishe.
"Well, a blue protozoan attacked him when he was young, and now hates anything blue," Kratos replied, a somewhat apologetic expression on his face.
"Oh, I see," Anna said, watching the protozoan eye Yuan's hair. "So when do we get to that watchamacallit forest?" Anna asked, changing the melancholy subject. Kratos pointed to a part of the forest that seemed dense and dark.
"It's Goarrochia Forest, and before night fall. We'll have to camp in the forest. The comment filled the men with the memories of their past, leaving Anna to the awkward silence.
"Um, why are you so silent?" she asked her thoughtful companions. Yuan told Anna of the joke they played on Martel, and the joke Mithos told, and how funny it was, although it wasn't so funny to Anna.
"Is that when the joke was invented?" Anna asked as a small smile spread on her lips. The joke seemed to be as old as the world, and was invented when Kratos was young!
"Yeah, it used to be really funny, maybe one of the only jokes that ever lasted 4,000 years," Yuan replied. Anna looked ahead of her, and saw the Goarrochia Forest closer than ever before.
"Did you like Martel?" Anna asked Yuan, who turned a shade of pink.
"Yes, we were engaged, but then, Martel was killed by some selfish Tethe'allan Soldier," he muttered through clenched teeth. Kratos looked back at his old friend, and made an apologetic smile, and then continued his walking. Anna covered her mouth, and remembered when Kratos read the page, how sad it had been for them.
"Oh…," she murmured, looking at her companions with a saddened expression on her face.
"All of them had been through a lot, and here I am, not experiencing any true pain," she whispered to herself.
Everyone was silent on their walk to the Goarrochia Forest, and even Noishe didn't whine. The group respected the silence and dared not break it. Kratos had stopped at the entrance to the forest, and Anna, not noticing, ran right into him. She immediately backed away and let out an ambush of apologies.
"Kratos, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to. I'm sorry," she stuttered, and Yuan chuckled at her actions. Kratos nodded and looked back at the forest.
"This is Goarrochia Forest, everyone. We can look for Ozette for awhile," he explained and continued into the creepy and dark forest.
"Why is it so dark?" Anna asked, oblivious to the Noishe creeping up behind her.
"BARK!" he barked, and Anna nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Noishe, you scared me!" she yelled, her heart beating at an extraordinary rate. Kratos rolled his eyes while Yuan smiled. Yuan instantly began a silent conversation with Kratos, making sure Anna doesn't hear.
"This reminds me of when I played that trick on Martel," he chuckled. Kratos eyed him for a moment, and then sighed.
"What do you want from me, Yuan?" Kratos hissed, annoyed at Yuan's failure at a sly movement.
"I need to know the truth. Do you like Anna?" he asked, glancing back at Anna who was busy getting a fallen tree branch off of Noishe. Kratos turned to his thoughts, searching for an answer. He had never been in love, and didn't know what it was like.
"I mean, do you feel weird around her?" Yuan asked again, trying another tactic.
"Humph," was the answer Yuan got, and he sped up to leave Yuan.
"In Kratos language, that means yes," he smirked to himself.
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Mr.Who2123: Yippee! (Hugs Kratos) Congratulations!
Kratos: What the heck?
Mr.Who2123: You love her!
Kratos: ...Review, and get off me!
Mr.Who2123: NEVER!